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Car Forum / Honda Cars / April 2005Civic Seatbelt Question
I have heard other people talk of this, so I hope some one out there knows the answer. The passenger seat belt in my 2000 Honda Civic DX is unlike the driver side seat belt. The driver side belt will extend and retract as the driver moves about, and only locks up if you try to extend it quickly (implying a collision). The passenger side belt, on the other hand, will only retract, and retract, and retract, strangling the passenger. I of course am always in the drivers seat, so I don't get to experience the problem first hand. Anyway, are there any fixes out there? I called a Honda dealership and asked about ordering a belt like the one on the driver's side, and I was told that it is a "controlled item".  SignaturePlease reply to: | "When the press is free and every man pciszek at panix dot com | able to read, all is safe." Autoreply has been disabled | --Thomas Jefferson Hey, I believe every car and I know Honda for sure has a LIFETIME WARRANTY on Seatbelts. Look at any warranty info for any honda vehicle. Also search on Google, I found this link when I did a search: http://auto.consumerguide.com/Auto/Used/reviews/full/index.cfm/id/2172/act/usedc arreviewreliability/ That link and the webpage it takes you to mentions that " Seatbelts may not retract or may retract slowly. Also, the button that keeps the seatbelt tongue from sliding down breaks. The belts should be serviced under the Honda Lifetime Seat Belt Limited Warranty". If I were you, I'd take it to the nearest dealership and get that looked at ASAP! Nope that helps a bit... AH Hey, I believe every car and I know Honda for sure has a LIFETIME WARRANTY on Seatbelts. Look at any warranty info for any honda vehicle. Also search on Google, I found this link when I did a search: http://auto.consumerguide.com/Auto/Used/reviews/full/index.cfm/id/2172/act/usedc arreviewreliability/ That link and the webpage it takes you to mentions that " Seatbelts may not retract or may retract slowly. Also, the button that keeps the seatbelt tongue from sliding down breaks. The belts should be serviced under the Honda Lifetime Seat Belt Limited Warranty". If I were you, I'd take it to the nearest dealership and get that looked at ASAP! Nope that helps a bit... AH > Hey, > > I believe every car and I know Honda for sure has a LIFETIME WARRANTY > on Seatbelts. Look at any warranty info for any honda vehicle. This is specific to Honda. There is no legal requirement for seat belts to carry any sort of warranty outside of the kind normally offered on any other part of the car. SignatureTeGGeR® The Unofficial Honda/Acura FAQ www.tegger.com/hondafaq/ Thanks Tegger >Hey, > >I believe every car and I know Honda for sure has a LIFETIME WARRANTY on >Seatbelts. Look at any warranty info for any honda vehicle. It's not broken. I will try to describe the problem one more time: The driver side belt works differently from the passenger side belt. The driver side belt will retract to stay snug, but will also extend if you lean forward. If you try to pull the belt out quickly (as would happen in a collision) it stops you. The passenger side belt is of a cheaper design. It retracts to stay snug, but the only way to get it to extend again is to unbuckle it, let it retract all the way, then pull it out again as if you were getting into the car all over again. While you are wearing it, it will retract but not extend. Over time, the belt becomes snugger and snugger because of this one-way action. This is only a problem for overweight passengers, so no one feels any obligation to improve upon it. >That link and the webpage it takes you to mentions that " Seatbelts may >not retract or may retract slowly. Also, the button that keeps the The belt retracts just fine. It retracts and retracts and becomes uncomfortable. What it won't do is *extend* while someone is wearing it; it never did, even when the car was new, and was never meant to as far as I can tell. The people who have suffered my passenger side seatbelt have encountered this problem in other cars, so it is not just a Honda Civic thing. What I am looking for is an after-market seatbelt that doesn't have this problem. SignaturePlease reply to: | "When the press is free and every man pciszek at panix dot com | able to read, all is safe." Autoreply has been disabled | --Thomas Jefferson >The passenger side belt is of a cheaper design. It retracts to >stay snug, but the only way to get it to extend again is to [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >This is only a problem for overweight passengers, so no one feels >any obligation to improve upon it. I have heard of seat belts that do this only if they are pulled out all the way before being buckled, in order to provide a tight fit for child seats (although child seats should not be in the front seat with an air bag). I haven't noticed such a thing normally occurring with any front passenger seat belt in any recent car (including 1996-2000 Honda Civics), but I don't pull the seat belt out all the way before buckling it. You may want to check the owner's manual to see what the intended behavior of the seat belt is (and whether pulling it out all the way before buckling it can trigger the one-way mode). If the seat belt is not acting as the owner's manual says it should, have it replaced under the lifetime seat belt warranty (assuming you are in a place where that is offered by Honda). Signature------------------------------------------------------------------------ Timothy J. Lee Unsolicited bulk or commercial email is not welcome. No warranty of any kind is provided with this message. >I have heard of seat belts that do this only if they are pulled out >all the way before being buckled, in order to provide a tight fit [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >1996-2000 Honda Civics), but I don't pull the seat belt out all the >way before buckling it. Thank you. As I mentioned, only large people seem to have a problem with this seatbelt, and that could well be explained by them pulling the belt all the way out before buckling it. It would be nice to get a belt that doesn't have this "feature", but it would probably be illegal to sell one. :-( It ought to be possible to verify with a moment's experimentation whether the belt is behaving as you describe. SignaturePlease reply to: | "When the press is free and every man pciszek at panix dot com | able to read, all is safe." Autoreply has been disabled | --Thomas Jefferson And just for clarification, the lifetime warranty that others mentioned covers parts AND labor. You shouldn't pay a dime. SignatureChris Powell Remove "_nospam_please" for real email address. |
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